is well noticed by most everyone in the world - except Christians. It is then (after it's mentioned) fashionable to become all defensive about an imagined criticism of 'Jesus' - it couldn't possibly be a criticism of the poverty of comprehension of His followers, now could it?

The Kingdom of God is all around you, yet you will not see it -- was the quote (from Timothy? IIRC) - in one of Jos. Campbell's talks with Bill Moyers. The 'esoteric wing' of Christianity 'gets it' similarly to all the much older religions' esoteric wings. The common folk are in it for What's In It for Me\ufffd [now and later].

And it is the common folk who are, by def'n, 'that infamous LCD' - those who love being Righteous and sanctimonious; preferably backed by Large Weapons. As in March 2002: as The Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists' clock was recently moved up to

5 Minutes Before Midnight.


deja vu... deja vu... Are all the Original thinkers now dead, to be found only in textbooks?



Ashton